{"id":344506,"date":"2025-09-27T03:58:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T03:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/344506\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T03:58:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T03:58:14","slug":"chris-welsh-mets-are-basically-out-of-pitching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/344506\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Welsh: Mets are basically out of pitching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fanduel Sports Network analyst Chris Welsh talked after the Cincinnati <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/story\/sports\/mlb\/reds\/2025\/09\/26\/the-reds-beat-the-brewers-and-control-their-playoff-fate-again-nl-wild-card-new-york-mets\/86379671007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Reds&#039; 3-1 win;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Reds&#8217; 3-1 win<\/a> in their series opener against the Brewers in Milwaukee about the help the Reds got from the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/new-york-mets\/245\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New York Mets;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">New York Mets<\/a> to move back into the National League&#8217;s third wild card spot.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets lost their series opener to the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/miami-marlins\/252\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Miami Marlins;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Miami Marlins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The (Mets) have a problem on their hands because they&#8217;re basically out of pitching,&#8221; Welsh said during the broadcast, &#8220;Unlike the Reds \u2026 the Mets are running out kids that are, like tonight, their starter, Brandon Sproat, had only thrown four games in the major leagues prior to tonight. So it&#8217;s two different ballclubs. I think they&#8217;re going in two different directions right now. The Reds just have to take care of their own business, and I think that&#8217;s where they&#8217;ve got their focus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Mets are scheduled to start Clay Holmes on Saturday against the Marlins&#8217; Eury Perez, and haven&#8217;t named a starter Sunday against Miami&#8217;s Edward Cabrera.<\/p>\n<p>The Reds are scheduled to start Andrew Abbott on Saturday against the Brewers&#8217; Robert Gasser, followed by Brady Singer on Sunday against Milwaukee&#8217;s Freddy Peralta.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"New York Mets relief pitcher Gregory Soto tosses a rosin bag after allowing a two-run home run to Miami Marlins pinch hitter Connor Norby\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/3ef8fa23bf60d122e116b2c9ad44d590.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>New York Mets relief pitcher Gregory Soto tosses a rosin bag after allowing a two-run home run to Miami Marlins pinch hitter Connor Norby<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/story\/sports\/mlb\/reds\/2025\/09\/26\/mets-reds-opposite-directions-starting-pitching-national-league-wild-card-race\/86382238007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Mets are basically out of pitching, per Reds broadcaster Chris Welsh;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Mets are basically out of pitching, per Reds broadcaster Chris Welsh<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fanduel Sports Network analyst Chris Welsh talked after the Cincinnati Reds&#8217; 3-1 win in their series opener against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2400],"tags":[2001,5,757,6303,136,49991,535,50,4259,1712,4914,1072,7775,58,843,4,505,61,536,12052,14889,973],"class_list":{"0":"post-344506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-reds","8":"tag-andrew-abbott","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-brady-singer","11":"tag-brandon-sproat","12":"tag-brewers","13":"tag-chris-welsh","14":"tag-cincinnati","15":"tag-cincinnati-reds","16":"tag-cincinnatireds","17":"tag-clay-holmes","18":"tag-edward-cabrera","19":"tag-eury-perez","20":"tag-freddy","21":"tag-miami-marlins","22":"tag-milwaukee","23":"tag-mlb","24":"tag-national-league","25":"tag-new-york-mets","26":"tag-reds","27":"tag-robert-gasser","28":"tag-series-opener","29":"tag-the-reds"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115274259450653588","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}